15 Great Resources for Up and Coming CSS Designers

Working at a corporation with a bunch of stuffy Java Developers it seems like there’s a resistance against using purely CSS for layout, decoration, and design. These Java Developers love their tables and don’t want to let them go. Recently we hired two CSS designers, all they think do and breath is CSS, which was a big step in the right direction by our management. Since the Java Developers are now being mandated to embrace CSS, thanks to me sharing CSS Zen Garden with someone in upper management, maybe it’s time to study up. The following list of sites come highly recommended from our top CSS designer, enjoy!

Cascading Style Sheets Home Page
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

The Web Accessibility Initiative
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

The Web Standards Project
http://www.webstandards.org/

W3 Schools - CSS Tutorials and live CSS demo
http://www.w3schools.com

CSS Validation - Test our XHTML/CSS for validity
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator

CSS Basics - Learn everything you ever wanted to know about the basics of CSS
http://www.cssbasics.com

Cultured Code - Interactive CSS property “dictionary”
http://culturedcode.com/css/reference_app.html

Web Design from Scratch - HTML block and inline styling explained
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/css-block-and-inline.cfm

CSS Crib Sheet - mezzoblue is a blog about design,the web, and some other things
http://www.mezzoblue.com/css/cribsheet/

CSS Play - Cutting edge Cascading Style Sheets. Experiments in CSS
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/index.html

Jeffrey Zeldman
http://zeldman.com

Eric Meyer - CSS Guru: Check out the Web Review articles
http://meyerweb.com/eric/writing.html

A List Apart - Great Web development articles + RSS feed
http://www.alistapart.com

Position is Everything - Great practical articles on important and timely CSS topics
http://www.positioniseverything.net/

SXSW (South by Southwest) - CSS Related Podcasts and Powerpoints from this annual Web Development conference
http://2007.sxsw.com/coverage/

Add these to your CSS arsenal and for an added bonus check out http://ilovejackdaniels.com, this one is my favorite, it’s a collection of cheat sheets for several languages including of course CSS.

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One Response to “15 Great Resources for Up and Coming CSS Designers”

  1. I love jack daniels is well worth checking out.

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